3 OCTOBER 1952, Page 22

The Public Schools

SIR,—Strix, in his comment on the future of the public schools, stops short of the real issue, as did Mr. Birley when I heard him speak recently on this subject. Mr. Birley sees no cause for alarm, satis- fied that Eton is full up to 1963, while Strix explains this phenomenon away by disclosing that today parents choose to pay for their children's education out of capital. That may be possible for this generatio'n of parents, but it will not be for the next.—Yours faithfully,

• Fieldgate, Worth, Sussex.

R. J. POLITZER.